A Belarusian businessman has been sentenced to five years in prison for "insulting" disputed ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka while commenting on a deadly police shoot-out at a Minsk apartment that left a KGB officer and an IT worker dead in September 2021.
A court in Moscow has issued arrest warrants for two former coordinators of groups in Siberia associated with jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny.
Police in the Czech Republic say Ukraine’s consulate in the country’s second-largest city, Brno, has received "a suspicious letter" similar to letter bombs sent to high-profile targets in Spain in recent days.